Post by Bonobo on Jun 20, 2011 20:18:41 GMT 1
NYC Geese to Feed Needy in Pennsylvania
Thursday, Jun 16, 2011 | Updated 11:17 AM EDT
New York has a new plan to protect local air traffic from the city's many geese.
New York City plans to send geese captured around its airports to a Pennsylvania slaughterhouse and then distribute them to food banks there.
The decision by the city Department of Environmental Protection was made following criticism that the gassed geese were dumped into landfills.
A department spokesman tells The New York Times that it wanted its efforts to enhance public safety but also help those in need.
Goose eradication was authorized after U.S. Airways Flight 1549 made a miraculous landing in the Hudson River in 2009 after geese were caught in its engines.
The agency said that next year the meat will probably be fed to needy New Yorkers.
Comments:
Matt Wolfe · Works at NCFS
Why not take it a step further and let the "needy people" capture, clean and cook the geese themselves and cut the government out of it all together. No additional gov't employees, no additional taxes and full needy bellys....Now that's a win-win situation.
Mary Brownell · Southern Vermont College
One good reason not to adopt Matt Wolfe's suggestion is that the "needy people" likely have no
experience in the capture, cleaning and large-scale cooking of geese - there would be much unnecessary cruelty and waste involved in the process. There are some things best left up to the most capable.
Tom McCarthy · St. Leo College
I have never understood why Canada geese are a protected species...they are prolific breeders, the US is infested with millions of them, they destroy private property and turn golf courses into malodorous fields of crap. They are mean, smelly and conversely, when properly prepared, delicious on the table. There should be open season on them with unlimited bag limits.
T W (signed in using Hotmail)
BWAAAAAAHHHH! I guess their goose is cooked........sorry I had to. I have heard of worse ideas but who is picking up the tab for the transport, processing, retransport storage and then distribution? Oh yeah that would be us. I guess it is our goose that is cooked. Not so funny now, is it?
Marion Ambler · Top Commenter · Vancouver, British Columbia
HSUS has done some research and calculated that it costs an average of $10-$12/pound to process Canada goose meat. With chicken going for $1 a pound, ten times as much food could be provided to people for the money spent on controversial goose killing.
It is WILD GAME and requires much more thorough testing than animals raised in the controlled environment of animals raised in factory farms. Often after testing dead geese supposedly destined to go to 'the poor' have ended up in landfills because it was found to be contaminated with environmental toxins such as mercury or lead (yes lead is a common one because of hunting and all the leadshot which ended up in ponds and lakes and the birds suck up when they feed off the lake or pond bottoms, as well they swallow fishing weights).
I also question how many people a six week old gosling feeds; I bet they don't even bother using them.
Thursday, Jun 16, 2011 | Updated 11:17 AM EDT
New York has a new plan to protect local air traffic from the city's many geese.
New York City plans to send geese captured around its airports to a Pennsylvania slaughterhouse and then distribute them to food banks there.
The decision by the city Department of Environmental Protection was made following criticism that the gassed geese were dumped into landfills.
A department spokesman tells The New York Times that it wanted its efforts to enhance public safety but also help those in need.
Goose eradication was authorized after U.S. Airways Flight 1549 made a miraculous landing in the Hudson River in 2009 after geese were caught in its engines.
The agency said that next year the meat will probably be fed to needy New Yorkers.
Comments:
Matt Wolfe · Works at NCFS
Why not take it a step further and let the "needy people" capture, clean and cook the geese themselves and cut the government out of it all together. No additional gov't employees, no additional taxes and full needy bellys....Now that's a win-win situation.
Mary Brownell · Southern Vermont College
One good reason not to adopt Matt Wolfe's suggestion is that the "needy people" likely have no
experience in the capture, cleaning and large-scale cooking of geese - there would be much unnecessary cruelty and waste involved in the process. There are some things best left up to the most capable.
Tom McCarthy · St. Leo College
I have never understood why Canada geese are a protected species...they are prolific breeders, the US is infested with millions of them, they destroy private property and turn golf courses into malodorous fields of crap. They are mean, smelly and conversely, when properly prepared, delicious on the table. There should be open season on them with unlimited bag limits.
T W (signed in using Hotmail)
BWAAAAAAHHHH! I guess their goose is cooked........sorry I had to. I have heard of worse ideas but who is picking up the tab for the transport, processing, retransport storage and then distribution? Oh yeah that would be us. I guess it is our goose that is cooked. Not so funny now, is it?
Marion Ambler · Top Commenter · Vancouver, British Columbia
HSUS has done some research and calculated that it costs an average of $10-$12/pound to process Canada goose meat. With chicken going for $1 a pound, ten times as much food could be provided to people for the money spent on controversial goose killing.
It is WILD GAME and requires much more thorough testing than animals raised in the controlled environment of animals raised in factory farms. Often after testing dead geese supposedly destined to go to 'the poor' have ended up in landfills because it was found to be contaminated with environmental toxins such as mercury or lead (yes lead is a common one because of hunting and all the leadshot which ended up in ponds and lakes and the birds suck up when they feed off the lake or pond bottoms, as well they swallow fishing weights).
I also question how many people a six week old gosling feeds; I bet they don't even bother using them.
